
must break free from their tumour home, travel through the fluid in the peritoneal cavity and attach to the outside of the abdominal organs–surfaces that are, by necessity, not sticky.
Despite these challenges, most patients with ovarian cancer are diagnosed after metastasis has begun, resulting in poor patient outcomes.
While ovarian cancer is only the 11th-most common form of cancer among women in the United States, it accounts for the fifth-most deaths, according to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance.
New research from the lab of Pamela Kreeger, a University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering professor, has identified one way ovarian cancer cells appear to successfully spread.
The work, detailed today in the journal Cancer Research, could lead to new therapies to curb metastasis of these tumours.
Source: eCancer News







